Oregon: Morse 1842

Title: Oregon Author: Sidney Morse Date: 1842 Medium: Cerograph Condition: Very Good Plus - foxing Inches: 15 x 11 3/4 [Image] Centimeters: 38.1 x 29.85 [Image] Product ID: 101572 Map of Oregon Territory marking major topographic features, Native peoples, and settlements. Shows 'Vancouver's Island,' Upper California, and British America. Longitude from Greenwich and Washington. Sidney Edwards Morse (1794 – 1871) was an American geographer, journalist, and inventor. He shared his innovative spirit with his brother, Samuel F.B. Morse, and his father Jedidiah Morse, who published the first geography book in the United States in 1784. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, graduated from Yale College at fourteen, studied theology at Andover and law at Litchfield, and at sixteen began writing for a Boston newspaper. In 1823 he and his brother Richard established the New York Observer, which was widely hailed as the foremost religious paper in the country at the time.